Category: Bitcoin

On December 14, 2017, BitPay announced a first step toward enforcing the payment protocol: All orders of the BitPay Card will require payments from Payment Protocol-compatible wallets, such as BitPay’s own wallet and a few others. This announcement came after an initial notice in November 2017, when BitPay first announced that BitPay invoices would soon …

James Levenson · January 6, 2018 · 7:30 am Big investment firms across the US are waking up to the power of the crypto market following Bitcoin’s epic ascent in 2017. Traditional investors are looking for a way to get into crypto without the technical hurdles of using exchanges, and finance companies are coming up …

Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Bitcoin fever is spreading around the globe at an unprecedented pace, and it has caught the attention of regulators in locales not normally thought of as major tech hubs — including the “Last Frontier.” This week, regulators in both Idaho and Alaska …

The President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev announced the intention to create a world cryptocurrency that will be based not on abstract trust but will be secured by specific assets, will be democratic and transparent. The new cryptocurrency will be called G-Global. “It will help the world get rid of monetary wars, black-marketeering …

Over the last month, bitcoin has seen large swings in price as the bulls scramble to call the bottom and the bears scramble to call the top of the market. The market saw a 50% retracement a few weeks ago, leading the bullish investors to “buy the dip” only to see it quickly top out …

Wilma Woo · January 4, 2018 · 2:30 pm South Korea cryptocurrency exchanges have submitted a legal challenge to the government claiming its new restrictions are “unconstitutional.” Law Firm: Govt. Is ‘Devaluing’ Virtual Currencies As local news outlet Korea Times reports today and Wednesday, Seoul-based law firm Anguk Law Offices has filed a complaint on …

Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. The People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party and the biggest newspaper group in China, recently published a piece calling bitcoin a bubble, and comparing the cryptocurrency to the 17th-century Dutch tulip bulb bubble., just like JP Morgan’s Jamie …

Key Highlights ETH price is surging higher and it recently moved above the $900 level against the US Dollar. There is a crucial bullish trend line forming with support at $890 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via SimpleFX). The pair remains in a super bullish trend and it is likely to move …

When the history of Bitcoin and blockchains is written, 2017 will be the year tagged as the “turning point” when Bitcoin and “red hot” blockchain technology went mainstream. The steadily rising bitcoin price and market cap is a key, though not the only, indicator that a tipping point has been reached. Despite turmoil like ICOs …

Bitcoinist.net · January 3, 2018 · 6:30 pm GI, Gibraltar, January 3, 2018. – STK has closed its Token Generation Event after successfully reaching its hard cap of $17MM more than a month prior to its scheduled public sale. After adjusting private and pre-sale contribution allocations for the recent increase in ETH, the pool of …